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With 10M users, Google+ emerges on social scene
It's official. Google+, which is just a bit more than two weeks old and still labeled a field trial, has gathered more than 10 million users. Read More


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Redraw Your Technology Roadmap
Get inside the trio of mega-trends in mobility, IT consumerization and cloud computing. "Cloud" has transformed from last year's buzzword to this year's reality. You will hear Boston IT leaders' advice on how to adapt to the demands of our new hyper-connected world at CIO Perspectives Boston – July 20, 2011. Click to continue

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The Real-time Value of BI
Today's top performing organizations have developed a strategy to manage growth in data volume & complexity while exploiting that data to create quicker business insight. Learn how best-in-class companies are delivering broader access to information in a shorter timeframe to facilitate substantial improvement in key business performance metrics. Click to continue

5 tips for a gadget-free vacation
The best way to truly "disconnect" from your hectic professional life while on vacation is to ditch as many of those electronic gadgets as possible. CIO.com's Al Sacco offers up five tips on how to have a "techless" vacation. Read More

IBM rolls out cloud-based Web analytics tool
IBM has released a Web analytics tool that combines two products from its acquisitions last year, Coremetrics, a Web analytics provider, and Unica. Read More

Researchers: Search engines supplanting our memory
Ubiquitous availability of the Internet may be causing a shift in how much information we retain in our memories, researchers claim. Read More

Jonny Evans: Apple's A6 processor: 28-nm, 3D IC and made by TSMC
While we wait for Lion, it's interesting to note the next Apple A6 processor will be made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and will be a 3D IC 28-nanometer low-power powerhouse, sweetly tucked away inside your iPhones and future model iPads. Read More

Google Q2 revenue up 32% to $9B-plus
Google's revenue and profit grew in the second quarter, as the company's core search advertising business continued to perform very well. Read More

Preston Gralla: Microsoft's future --- Windows everywhere or Windows nowhere?
Two very different rumors have been making the rounds in the wake of a recent speech at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. One rumor has Microsoft putting Windows code on every device possible, from smartphones to tablets, PCs, TVs and beyond. Another has Microsoft biting the bullet and giving up the Windows name entirely. Which is more likely to happen? Read More


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From CIO: The latest security tool for your arsenal: Whitelisting
Attacks at RSA, Sony and others point to the need to get tough with what you allow on your network. Whitelisting requires more maintenance from IT, but it is the best way to fortify your network and protect your data. Read More

Oracle to issue 78 bug fixes on Tuesday
Oracle is planning to issue 78 patches covering a number of its software products on Tuesday, including 13 fixes for its flagship database. Read More

Critics: U.S. cybersecurity plan has holes, few new items
The new Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace issued by the Department of Defense on Thursday covers a collection of topics that have been discussed for years and leaves a number of important unanswered questions, critics said. Read More

Onavo compresses data to cut mobile bills
Israeli startup Onavo aims to save mobile subscribers money on their data plans by shrinking the data they download. Read More

Study: Ad networks not honoring do-not-track promises
Some ad networks are not living up to promises to stop tracking Web users after an opt-out request, a study says. Read More

Mobile changing the way enterprises buy technology
Mobile devices and applications are streaming into enterprises, changing the way IT departments buy technology and relate to other employees, three vendor executives said this week at the MobileBeat conference in San Francisco. Read More

IT Blogwatch: Google has huge Q2, plus Plus vs Facebook fight
Google announced Q2 results that were unexpectedly good. CEO Larry Page is bursting with pride at what's been achieved, not the least of which is the success so far of Google Plus vs Facebook. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers run the numbers. Read More



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